On the afternoon of March 1, 2026, Academician Han Jiecai, the president, led a research visit to the Faculty of Computing. Vice President Liu Ting and the heads of relevant functional departments attended the research meeting together.
President Han emphasized that in the context of the current era of rapid evolution and waxing and waning of artificial intelligence, the Faculty of Computing should strengthen the sense of mission and responsibility that development is the top priority, lay out the development of key areas with a forward-looking perspective, and build a strong computing discipline group. He pointed out that we should adhere to the orientation of excellence, strive for advancement, and plan and lay out everything for development; We must keep liberating our minds, forge new paths, dare to break the conventional mindset, go beyond path dependence, and boldly explore new measures for innovative development; Strengthen the awareness of shooting, carry forward the spirit of ten years of sharpening one sword and work hard to make breakthroughs on big platforms and big awards; We need to strengthen our distinctive cross-sections, identify the key areas of effort, and intensify our layout in cutting-edge fields such as smart agriculture, bioinformatics, and satellite Internet security to form a differentiated competitive advantage.
President Han Jiecai pointed out that he hopes the Faculty of Computing will take the formulation of the "15th Five-Year Plan" as a new starting point, strengthen its confidence in development, seize development opportunities, focus on frontier fields such as computer science, artificial intelligence, software engineering, and cyberspace security, continuously improve the quality of education and core competitiveness, and help the school seize core tracks in the intelligent era. Contribute more to the university's move towards the forefront of the world's top universities and to serving the overall situation of China's modernization.
Vice President Liu Ting pointed out that the Faculty of Computing should accurately grasp the characteristics and laws of the computing discipline cluster that are both fundamental and cutting-edge, shoulder the responsibility for development in the intelligent era, seize major historic opportunities for breakthroughs, and make outstanding contributions to the school's excellent development in the intelligent era. He emphasized the need to adhere to the orientation of excellence, integrate the wolf-like culture, and gather the spiritual strength of striving for development; We should strengthen the construction of the reserve cadre team and intensify the reserve and selection and training of young cadres who are both virtuous and talented and have strong comprehensive abilities in management, coordination and communication. We should focus on key areas and plan key projects, unite people with major projects and produce outstanding results; We will build up innovation and intelligence bases, and rely on them to deepen substantive international cooperation and the implementation of achievements. We should focus on building a diversified talent echelon and cultivating talents to lay a solid talent foundation for the high-quality development of disciplines.
Wang Guohua, the dean of the School of Computer Science and Technology and deputy director of the Faculty of Computing, reported on the basic situation of the division and its achievements and plans in terms of faculty, talent cultivation, scientific research, and international cooperation. He said that the Faculty of Computing will follow the laws of educational development, adhere to innovation, maintain strategic resolve, strengthen the layout of basic research, promote the construction of the teaching staff, enhance international academic influence, improve the mechanism of coordinated development of one university and three campuses, gather the strength of all staff to strive forward, and make greater contributions due to computer people in the process of the university moving towards the forefront of world-class universities.
Heads of various functional departments and members of the leadership team of the Faculty of Computing exchanged views and discussed issues such as the cultivation of undergraduate and postgraduate students and the selection of top-notch innovative talents, organized research and the layout of basic research, the introduction of high-level faculty and the construction of talent echelons, international cooperation and the enhancement of academic influence, resource guarantee and condition construction, cross-integration and the construction of disciplinary ecosystems, A lot of consensus ideas and suggestions were formed for the division to solve development problems and improve development quality and efficiency.
This survey pointed out the direction for the future development of the Faculty of Computing and greatly boosted the morale of the teachers in the school. Next, the Faculty of Computing will study and understand the spirit of this research meeting, further unify thoughts and build consensus, with more vigorous fighting spirit and pragmatic style, seize the historical opportunities bestowed by the intelligent era, strive to push all the work of the school to a new level, and contribute the wisdom and strength of the computing discipline to the school's advancement to the forefront of world-class universities.
The heads of the Undergraduate School, the Graduate School, the Institute of Science and Industrial Technology, the Student Affairs Office, the Personnel Office, the International Cooperation Department, the State-owned Assets and Laboratory Management Department, the Development Planning and Discipline Construction Department, the Domestic Cooperation Department, as well as the members of the leadership team and teacher representatives of the Faculty of Computing participated in the research.
